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Originally Posted by thegreatestporn
What do you use if windows freezes on startup including safe mode? Had a friend come to me with this. Spent days trying to get it to load.
I used a virus scan live CD and it came up clean. Ended up using a linux live CD and saving all her important files to an external and reformatted and reinstalled windows. Works like a champ now. We were trying to save her install of CS4 though.
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Well sometimes its not even a case of viruses still being on the machine preventing it from starting, its just that its fucked up either the registry, dll files, or shit like the MBR..etc..
Most of the time you can get windows to boot up in local safe mode with command prompt or if necessary use a Windows 7 install or recovery CD thats been made to get to the prompt. Then you can run things like system file checker which usually has a pretty good success rate and fixing issues well enough to get you into the GUI interface of SAFE MODE and get a foot hold at starting to run your kit removals
You can also use the program that MS posted like HitmanPro Kickstarter and load up via a USB stick....its basically the same type of principal. Which is basically just loading up a minimal/selective startup version of windows....basically same thing as safe mode...